"We're not here to scrutinize the NFL's business practices. We're here to affirm that if they want to take advantage of an antitrust exemption granted to them by this body, that there are certain public interest obligations that went along with that."
“Everybody's ratings are basically up except for the NBA and whoever replaced the 12 p.m. SportsCenter. If your ratings don’t go up it’s probably a bad sign."
Not everybody is going to like you. And that's ok. But it feels like once every couple of weeks McAfee dips into the "Nobody's rooting for me" bag. It's exhausting.
“We’ve given a lot of people who have been waiting for us to fail a lot of ammo, and things to attack us for over the last week. And we would love to get back to the point where we just move on.”
What is the path forward for ESPN that doesn't include intense scrutiny? From my perspective, I don't know that one exists, and that's a tough spot to find yourself.
"We're not here to scrutinize the NFL's business practices. We're here to affirm that if they want to take advantage of an antitrust exemption granted to them by this body, that there are certain public interest obligations that went along with that."
"This panel, led by Congressman [Scott] Fitzgerald, who's right there in Wisconsin, has witnesses solely on one side of the issue. There is no effort. We've offered many witnesses, and there's no effort to have a balanced group."